Why does stuff have mass? | The history of the Higgs Boson

What gives particles mass? That's a very different question to what gives stuff weight. And it's one that physicists have been asking for centuries...
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Dalton (1803) - https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2... [first mention]
Becquerel (1896) - http://web.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/becque... [translation]
Thomson (1897) - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...
Curie (1904) - https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0815...
Rutherford (1911) - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...
Higgs (1964) - https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
Guralnik, Hagen & Kibble (1964) - https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
Englert & Brout (1964) - https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

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Dr Becky Smethurst is an astrophysicist researching galaxies and supermassive black holes at Christ Church at the University of Oxford.

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